Cloud Infrastructure Architect Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the City of London is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £127,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 - -
75th Percentile £142,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £135,000 £120,000 -
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,959 1,626 2,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 94.59% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,134 1,306 1,883
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -2.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2026, Cloud Infrastructure Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) IaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) PaaS
2 6 (85.71%) PlantUML
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Budgeting
3 4 (57.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) YAML
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) NAS
5 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (85.71%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) IaaS
2 6 (85.71%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Budgeting
2 4 (57.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) VMware